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Understanding WVD Usage
Hi mogulman52
It sounds like you have 2 options. If you are only using WVD for 1 hour each day then it maybe easier to just either manually power the VMs on and off when you need them, or implement power management.
Without power management your VM is running 24x7 and costing money. When a VM is powered on it is costing you money, whether you use it or not. A VM will only not cost you money when it is in a "stopped and deallocated" state.
You can configure this by following the instructions here - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/set-up-scaling-script
You could for example tell the autoscaling script to only ensure that VMs are available from 1pm - 3pm every day. This would automatically power the VMs on and off, which would save you money.
Hope that helps!
virtualmancThanks for your reply. I'll check what the cost actually is. I could probably limit time to 6am to 6pm. It looks like an involved process to setup and probably maintain.
Hi mogulman52
Well to be honest once you set it up, you can just leave it running. Yes its a bit of effort to set it up but you could save yourself a lot money!!
You should also check out https://wvdlogix.net/wvdlogix-autoscaling-tool as Patrick recently released a GUI version which does it all for you!!